Internet Explorer 9 open new window from taskbar

[TheEagle54]

I know somewhere there is a simple answer to this, but I have been scratching my head and googling for hours with no joy.

I have IE9 browser pinned to my taskbar.
When I click on it a windows internet page opens with my home page (google). The E icon now disappears and I have the google (or what ever site I am on) in the taskbar.

Ideally what I want to do is click on the IE9 icon in the taskbar and it REMAINS there and the home page opens up with the bar remaining in the taskbar.

So for example if I clicked on the IE9 icon five times I would have five separate pages open with 5 bars all showing google in the taskbar.

I hope that makes sense, I used to have it that way before I reformatted .

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[Brink]

Hello TheEagles,

You should be able to right click on the IE9 icon on the taskbar, then click on Internet Explorer to open a new window of IE9 to your homepage.

You could also press and hold Shift, and click on the IE9 icon on the taskbar to open a new window of IE9 to your homepage.



Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[TheEagle54]

I did find that out thanks, but before I reformatted it I could just left click and it would open a separate page for each click. Ideally I would like to get it back to that way.......basically with the ie9 e icon always remaining on the left side of the taskbar

 

[Brink]

You're welcome.

Shift + left click on IE9 icon will let you as well.

 

[TheEagle54]

You're welcome.

Shift + left click on IE9 icon will let you as well.

Thanks, but really want the one left click way back please

 

[Brink]

The only way that I know of to do that from the taskbar is to have a shortcut of IE9 in Quick Launch.

 

[logicearth]

Middle-click also opens a new window.

 

[Brink]

Ah, forgot about that one. Thanks.

 

[TheEagle54]

Thanks for your replies .....no wonder I am having trouble finding a solution if you experts can't

I definitely didn't use quick launch.

I can assure you in my taskbar I used to have only two icons pinned ......windows mail and also i/e 9

When I clicked on the mail icon, obviously that opened and used the mail icon to show it had opened, that left just the i/e 9 icon. If I clicked on that the icon remained and an ie page opened. If I clicked on it again another ie opened.

Would love to know how I done it

 

[logicearth]

Screen shot?

 

[TheEagle54]

Second shot?

sorry, what do you mean?

 

[logicearth]

Spell check fail.

 

[TheEagle54]

The screen shot won't show anything, it would have on my pc before I formatted it :-(

 

[Brink]

Thanks for your replies .....no wonder I am having trouble finding a solution if you experts can't

I definitely didn't use quick launch.

I can assure you in my taskbar I used to have only two icons pinned ......windows mail and also i/e 9

When I clicked on the mail icon, obviously that opened and used the mail icon to show it had opened, that left just the i/e 9 icon. If I clicked on that the icon remained and an ie page opened. If I clicked on it again another ie opened.

Would love to know how I done it

Sorry, but I have never had it open a new IE9 window for everytime I clicked on the pinned IE9 icon on the taskbar. It only opened a new window the first time I clicked on it. Afterwards, it just shows the thumbnail previews of opened IE9 tabs and windows, or minimizes/maximizes a single opened window when I click on the IE9 taskbar icon.

Are you able to set your middle mouse button to be "middle click" to use that to click on the IE9 taskbar icon to open a new window each time as logicearth posted?

 

[TheEagle54]

Yes I can and all the other suggestions do work but not as well as I used to operate it.
Thanks for your time (everyone).

I will not give in yet though

 

[Gornot]

What you have been experiencing was probably just a bug; reinstalling fixed it, and that's it. If you really want to keep just one click, use middle click instead of left click as suggested.

 

[elyse19]

TheEagle54 - same issue

I have exactly the same issue. TheEagle54 is correct. I accidentally unpinned IE 11 from my taskbar and can no longer L-click and get IE to open a new window to the R of all my other pinned taskbar icons, leaving the original pinned icon where it was - so I could L-click on it again whenever I wanted to open a new IE window. I have done this through multiple updates and have never had a problem. This is the first time I have tried to "re-pin" and it hasn't functioned this way.

 

[UsernameIssues]

I have exactly the same issue. TheEagle54 is correct. I accidentally unpinned IE 11 from my taskbar and can no longer L-click and get IE to open a new window to the R of all my other pinned taskbar icons, leaving the original pinned icon where it was - so I could L-click on it again whenever I wanted to open a new IE window. I have done this through multiple updates and have never had a problem. This is the first time I have tried to "re-pin" and it hasn't functioned this way.

As has been stated: the behavior of a single left click opening an IE window with a task bar rectangle to the right of all other pinned items is not normal. Something within Windows was broken to cause that. I have seen this happen and the solution is to remove the broken pinned item and create a new pinned item in its place.

I doubt that you are going to find instructions on how to break the pinned item to produce the behavior that you want. The pinned task bar shortcuts reside in a folder* and there is a registry key** with values with binary data that works in conjunction with those shortcuts. I played with them a bit, but I could not break things in a way that you want.


*
%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

**
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband